Dickenss Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist
Language: English
Published by The Harvester Press, 1976
- Used
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United KingdomBoundlessBookstore
AbeBooks seller since February 12, 2013
Condition: Used - Good
£ 10.80
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. Owner name to end paper. DJ with some edge wear and fading to spine.
Seller Inventory # 9999-999101322756
- Title
- Dickenss Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist
- Author
- Duane Devries
- Publisher
- The Harvester Press
- Publication year
- 1976
- Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0064916723
- ISBN 13
- 9780064916721
Ever since the fifth instalment of the Pickwick Papers in 1836 scholars have expressed amazement at the virtually overnight emergence of the 24-year-old Charles Dickens from an unknown nobody to the literary lion of the day.
At one bound he leapt from nowhere to the summit of literary success and fame. How did he do it?
This is the classic modern study of how Dickens staged his grand entrance. Critics of his day thought he did so without warning or fanfare. How was it possible for an obscure newspaper reporter to write, in his early twenties, such a brilliant, popular work as Pickwick? Where did he acquire the nicety of observation, the fineness of tact, the exquisite humour, the wit, heartiness, sympathy with all things good and beautiful in human nature, the perception of character, the pathos, and accuracy of description?
This work is a thorough and illuminating study of this central question, and fully illuminates Dickens's early development.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
"These four updated seminal studies belong in any core reference collection on the life and works of Dickens, one of today’s greatest global literary giants.” — Professor Edward Guiliano, co-editor Dickens Studies Annual.
“examines every shred of extant information about Dickens to try to answer the question of the sudden flowering of talent.” - Choice.
“exemplary scholarship.” - R. L. Patten, Dickens Studies Newsletter.
a “massive compilation of research...a careful reading of the original texts...a book which every student and admirer of Dickens will profit from and enjoy.” - F. S. Schwarzbach, The Dickensian.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
BoundlessBookstore
Wallingford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since February 12, 2013
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 15 business days | 5 to 15 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 6.98 | £ 6.98 |
Payment methods
Seller's business information
WRAP Ltd.
Unit 4, 119 Loverock Rd
Reading, United Kingdom RG30 1DZ
Terms of sale
Customers may return books within 30 days of the original
sale. Please get in touch with any queries/problems, we are
always on hand to help.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom, without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.
Shipping terms
Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.